Having returned to the club he served for 17 years as a first-team player in an Academy coaching role back in February, the legend officially took the reins of the youth side on Monday.
Pre-season tests and assessments were the order of the day at the Kirkby base, as well as the opportunity for the re-organised management set-up to settle in with the squad.
For Culshaw and Milsom, close confidants of Gerrard who have taken up positions of assistant manager and lead fitness coach respectively, the new era is one to relish.
“I’m really proud – first of all, to be working with the U18s and second of all, to be working with Steven as part of his staff,” said Culshaw.